In 1849 directories Thomas Purchase is again a maltster & brewer at the ‘Globe Commercial Inn’ Bridge Road, 2 Andover Place. An advert in the directory refers to Globe Commercial Inn and “Home Brewed Ales, London Porter and Dublin Stout”.  In 1851, 1853 and 1855 we find similar entries, sometimes referring to him as also a hotel keeper and sometimes at No 1 Orchard Lane. Note No 2 Andover Place, so how many properties were there? Perhaps Thomas Purchase bought a larger are of land which was developed over the years, as we see in later auction adverts.

The Hampshire Advertiser of 13th March 1852 reports on a case between Mr Wolferstan of the Albion Hotel, (another local brewer, see the Albion Brewery page) and Mr Purchase of the Globe Inn. It was said Mr Wolferstan had moved from Salisbury to Southampton in 1849. His large Billiard table would not fit in to the Albion Hotel so he sold it to Mr Purchase for use in the Globe. Mr Wolferstan had received malt to the value of £10.4s, and he was now claiming the balance. Mr Purchase said the table was at the Globe, but it was for the benefit of both parties. There was a dispute also as to value, and the Jury could not agree, so the Court suggested that Mr Wolferstan keep the malt, and Mr Purchase keep the table, with each paying their own costs.

There was trouble at the premises in January 1852, when John Barnes, a brewer employed by Mr Purchase had to throw two drunk people from the pub. They stabbed him in the thigh and hit him.

In the Hampshire Advertiser of 28th July 1855 it was advertised that the Globe Commercial Free Hotel and Brewery was available to be let on lease. “The proprietor has carried on very successfully, at the eligibly-situated premises for fourteen years, the business of brewer, wine and spirit merchant and innkeeper”. The advert related to a dwelling and inn keeping business, a wine and spirit trade selling 2000 gallons of spirits annually, as well as a six Quarter brewery attached (a brew of about 864 Gallons at a time) which “is very compact and for the last 5 years the consumption of malt has been 300 Quarters annually”.

There were however some changes. In January 1857, Thomas Purchase announced in the Hampshire Advertiser that he had “relinquished the Hotel and Retail department “of the Globe Hotel to William Perren, who had moved from Australia. Thomas retained the brewery. 

The 1857 Kelly’s Directory still shows Thomas Purchase at the Globe Hotel, a brewer, but by the 1859 Forbes Directory, John Farnden is listed at Orchard Lane Brewer etc, Globe Brewery, and also as a hotel keeper at the New York Hotel Canute Road. 

John Farnden transferred from the New York Hotel to the Globe, and in February 1858 he was advertising for sale three well-seasoned vats, two of 50 Barrels and one of 40 barrels “Apply to Mr Farnden New York Hotel, or the Globe Brewery. By May that year, the transfer seems complete and he announces in the Hampshire Advertiser of 22nd May 1858 “that he has taken the above brewery of Mr Thomas Purchase” and having made considerable alterations, could now offer ale and beer in casks of 4 1/2 gallons and up at 1s, 1s 4d, and 1s 6d per gallon. He had “also set aside a portion of the above premises for the ale bottling trade” and could offer pale ales of the finest quality, including Allsopp’s and Bass’s Pale Ale, as well as Barclay & Co’s stout.

The following year, 1859, he was advertising “Farnden’s genuine home brewed Ales incasks of 4 1/2 gallons and upwards” as well as Bass, Allsopps Ale, and Barclay and Perkins Stout in cask or bottles. He was employing six men by 1861, and newspapers in March 1862, still refer to John Farnden as a Brewer. He died in April or May that year and was succeeded by his widow, Jane, who appears in the 1863 PO directory but at 99 High Street, brewer, corn dealer and porter brewer. In 1865, she is at the Globe Brewery.

By 1861 we John Farnden as a ‘brewer etc’ at the Globe Brewery, and we also have the first mention of the Perkins association with ‘Perkins & Lankaster, Albion Brewery Coleman Street. This was Frederick Perkins, see the Albion Brewery page which refers to the Hampshire Advertiser of 2nd April 1859 when Frederick Perkins, wine and brandy merchant announced he had taken the Albion Brewery for the express purpose of supplying superior pure malt liquor. He had taken on a London brewer of more than 30 years’ experience, and being able to buy hops and malt in the ‘first market’ he could guarantee an article of “strength and fine flavour equal to any yet offered to the public”. 

Thomas Purchase died on 19th July 1862 aged 68 years. 

I do not know who owned the freehold of the Hotel and Brewery but in the Hampshire Independent of 11th October 1862 there is an auction notice for premises at Bridge Road, on the corner of Orchard Lane, the Globe Inn with dwelling house, and a private residence adjoining. Also a good shop with dwellinghouse, and an excellent five Quarter brewery (One Quarter smaller than in 1855. Had there been a deliberate reduction in production?). More detail appeared on 1st November. Lot 1 was the Globe Hotel let on lease, with 2 years unexpired, to Mr Gray, rent £150pa. Lot 2, was the 5 quarter brewery adjoining Lot 1 in Orchard Lane with a malt store and extensive cellarage, held on a lease by Mrs Farnden for a term expiring Christmas 1864 at rent £50pa. Lot 3 business premises in Bridge Road.

This is the first mention of the hotel and brewery being separate areas. The mention of these lots, with a shop and dwelling perhaps confirms that the area acquired by Thomas Purchase known as ‘Andover Place’ had been developed.

Jane Farnden was still at the Globe Brewery in September 1863. The landlord of the Victoria & Albert Beer Shop in Orchard Lane was reported for selling beer out of hours, on the evidence of a PC who went in to see what was happening. The landlord concluded the case by saying that “that Policeman drinks more of Mrs Farnden’s beer on a Sunday morning than I sell during the week”.  

I believe that she ceased brewing in 1867, as in March and April that year there appears an auction notice for the sale of various household effects, and about 2,000 gallons of ale, four kilderkins of stout, 2 pockets of hops, a beer engine, and isinglass (finings, for producing clear beer). All were on the premises of Miss Farnden (which may have been a typo, or perhaps was Jane’s daughter?). Farnden also appears in the 1867 Gutch directory, but by the 1869 Cox Directory we find Palmer & Perkins at 40 Orchard Lane, Globe Brewery.

I cannot find further information on the ‘Palmer’ name, which seems to have lasted for a very short time. On the 26 September 1868 the employees of Perkins & Sons upholsterers and of Palmer & Perkins of the Globe Brewery Orchard Lane met at the Canute Hotel to celebrate the coming of age of the eldest son (Richard) of Councillor G P Perkins. The following year, on 21st July, there was an advert for Palmer & Perkins Globe Brewery Orchard Lane. “TryPalmer & Perkins Pale Ales, equal to Burton at 1s and 1s 2d a gallon, Dinner Ale at 1s and 1s.6d warranted brilliant and sound”. Sole agents for Truman Hanby Buxton Co Stout.

Palmer & Perkins traded until around 1870, but Richard Hopkins Perkins takes over from 1871.

By 1876, the Globe Hotel was owned by Andrew Barlow’s Victoria brewery, and in newspapers of early July 1876, they advertised that the hotel was available for letting. Perkins brewed from the brewery at the rear, but kept the ‘Globe’ connection. By February 1877 the reference is to the Globe Steam Brewery some improvements were made after acquisition.